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    The changing face of genre

    May 05, 2019 3 minutes

    OLIVER PFEIFFER

    Contributor, Metro (2013–present)

    As highlighted throughout Mark Hartley’s entertaining, exhaustive documentary Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008; M158), Australian genre films faced substantial prejudice during their rise in the 1970s and 1980s. After all, they had the misfortune of being released around the same time as such celebrated Australian New Wave titles as Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975; M35, M149, M193) and My Brilliant Career

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